THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



The thirty-eighth annual meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario was held in 

 London on Wednesday and Thursday, the 13th and 14th of November, 1901. The chair was 

 occupied by the Rev. Dr. Fyles, of South Quebec, President. Among the members present 

 were Dr. James Fletcher and Mr. Arthur Gibson, Central Experinrental Farm, Ottawa ; Mr. 

 Henry H. Lyman, Montreal ; Mr. John D. Evans, Trenton ; Prof. Lochhead, Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College, Guelph ; Mr. Geo. E. Fisher, Inspector of Scale Insects, Freeman, Ont. ; 

 Mr. Charles H. Young, Hurdman's Bridge, Ont. ; Prof. F. M. Webster, State Entomologist, 

 Wouster, Ohio ; Revs. Canon Dann and Dr Bethune ; Drs. W. J. and H. A. Stevenson, Dr. 

 Woolverton, Messrs. J. A. Balkwill, J. H. Bowman, J. Dearness, John Law, J. Abton MoflFat, 

 W. E. Saunders, R. W. Rennie, E. A. Brown, Demster, Thompson, Lochhead, and many other 

 residents of London. The Society was also favored with tie presence of the Hon. J. Dryden, 

 Minister of Agriculture for Ontario, and Mr. G. C. Creelman Superintendent of the Farmers' 

 Institutes of Ontario. 



Letters expressing regret at their inability to attend were received from Directors, W. H. 

 Harrington, Ottawa ; D. G. Cox, Toronto ; and James Johnston, Bartonville ; and from 

 Messrs. E. M. Walker, Toronto ; A. F. Winn and Dwight Brainerd, Montreal. 



The morning of Wednesday, November 13th, was taken up with a meeting of the Council 

 for the transaction of the business of the Society and the preparation of their annual report. 

 In the afternoon the Society met at 2.30 o'clock and at once proceeded to discuss the progress, 

 present aspect and future outlook of the San Jose scale in Ontario The President, Dr. Fyles, 

 expressed his gratification at the presence of so many eminent men at their meeting and felt 

 assured that the conference they were entering upon would be of great value both to them- 

 selves and to all interested in fruit culture in this Province. 



SAN JOSlfi SCALE DISCUSSION. 



At the request of the President, Mr. George E. Fisher, of Freeman, Ont., the Provincial 

 Inspector of Scale insects, opened the discussion. The following is a condensed summary of 

 his address : I wish to state at the outset and to emphasize very strongly the fact that very 

 few fresh localities have been found this year infested by the San Jose scale. This is very 

 encouraging and leads us to feel that the prospects of stamping it out are not altogether hope- 

 less. People are now realizing better than ever before how dangerous an enemy it is ; but it is 

 remarkable how many mistakes were made in identifying the scale, the oyster-shell bark-louse 

 the scurfy bark-louse, and others, being mistaken for it. In the localities where the scale is 

 present, its increase and destructiveness have been greater than ever before ; it does not con- 

 tine itself to one place, but reaches out into new localities beyond its former limits. As an 

 illustration of the very great increase of the scale, I may give one instance. There is an 

 orchard of 1,600 peach trees which was inspected in August, 1899, by seven experienced men ; 

 they spent six days in their examination and only found the scale on 87 trees, showing that the 

 infestation was but slight. In August of the following year, 1900, I could find the scale on 

 every tree I looked at, but still a good crop of fruit was produced. This year (1901) that 

 orchard is practically dead ; it will never bear another crop of fruit ; the scale is to be seen 



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